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Columbus Protesters Rally for Justice for Ma’Khia Bryant, Killed by Police
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2:36Now PlayingProtesters marched through the streets of Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday night, a day after police shot dead a Black teenager as she charged at people with a knife.
The teenager, Ma’Khia Bryant, was 16.
The protesters marched and held banners, then sat down silently in the street.
Officials with the Columbus Division of Police had released initial footage of the shooting Tuesday night just hours after it happened.
The incident took place within minutes of the verdict in the trial of a white police officer accused of murdering George Floyd.
Body camera footage released Wednesday in the shooting of Bryant showed a chaotic scene and ignited outrage by many over the continued use of lethal force by police in the U.S.
Bryant was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said. Police did not say if anyone else was injured.
The 10-second body camera clip begins with the officer, identified Wednesday as Nicholas Reardon, getting out of his car at a house where police had been dispatched after someone had called 911 saying they were being physically threatened.
The officer, who was hired by the force in December 2019, is seen taking a few steps toward a group of people in the driveway when Bryant starts swinging a knife wildly at another girl or woman, who falls backward. The officer shouts several times to get down.
Bryant then charges at another girl or woman, who is pinned against a car.
From a few feet away, with people on either side of him, the officer fires four shots, and Bryant slumps to the ground. A black-handled blade similar to a kitchen knife or steak knife lies on the sidewalk next to her.
A man immediately yells at the officer, “You didn’t have to shoot her! She’s just a kid, man!”
Bryant was in foster care with Franklin County Children's Services at the time of her death.
The incident has caused an outcry in the community and nationwide as Bryant’s killing was the second high-profile fatal shooting of a teenager by police in the last month.
Body camera footage released last week showed an officer shoot and kill 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago.
Ohio’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation is now reviewing the killing of Bryant.
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